Interesting Catch

The Bullwinkle Blog catches an interesting item from the AP. While noting a report that civilian deaths dropped dramatically overnight in Baghdad, he catches one glaring little problem with the coverage:

Wonderful news if it lasts. The surge seems to be working contrary to what the Lefties think and working sooner than many who believed in it thought it would. The bad news?

AP still think al-Zarqawi was charismatic (from the same article):

Al-Masri took over the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq after its charismatic leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a U.S. airstrike last year in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad. In October, false reports surfaced that al-Masri was killed in a raid, and the U.S. military performed DNA tests on a slain militant to see if he was the al-Qaida leader.

AP’s reverence for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is sickening. Calling al-Zarqawi charismatic two days in a row shows it wasn’t a simple slip of the pen, it’s a given that at least one reporter and one editor at AP think he truly was charismatic. Considering that I have a hard time believing that the good news reported isn’t actually even better than they are willing to admit.

This is exactly one of the problems with the media coverage to date and the mutually beneficial spiral of death the journalists are in locked together with the terrorists in. They inflate our enemies and diminish our own people. And the terrorists respond to the good press by giving the media more red meat. This is a real problem. Zarqawi sawed people's heads off, he was not "charismatic". He was an inhuman butcher.

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